A pair of Italian arte povera painted and parcel-gilt commodes, Venetian mid 18th century

each with a moulded shaped top, above three serpentine drawers, on squat cabriole legs, the whole decorated in arte povera with cartouches enclosing lovers in a landscape, birds and trees, on a cream ground within green and red borders decorated with trelliswork and scrolling foliage; some retouching to painting and gilding

Recorded in the Inventory of 1959, in Sir Gawaine's Bedroom, Leeds Castle, stated to have been purchased from Masi, France on 21st November 1955 for £840.